Is the Legalization of Physician‐Assisted Suicide Compatible with Good End‐of‐Life Care?

Many have held that there is some kind of incompatibility between a commitment to good end‐of‐life care and the legalization of physician‐assisted suicide. This opposition to physician‐assisted suicide encompasses a cluster of different claims. In this essay I try to clarify some of the most important of these claims and show that they do not stand up well to conceptual and empirical scrutiny.